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Show 266 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: OR, "1 meant to stop your fainting," said Cassy, "and I did do it. And now I tell you, Emmeline, you must make up your mind not to faint, let what will come ; there 's no sort of need of it. If I had not stopped you, that wretch might have had his hands on you now." Emmeline shuddered. The two remained some time in silence. Cassy busied herself with a French book; Emmeline, overcome with the exhaustion, fell into a doze, and slept some time. She was awakened by loud shou!l! and outcries, the tramp of horses' feet, and the baying of dogs. She started up, with a faint shriek. "Only the bunt coming back," said Cassy, coolly; " never fear. Look out of this knot-bole. Don't you see 'em all down there 1 Simon bas to give it up, for this night. Look, bow muddy his horse is, flouncing about in the swamp ; the dogs, too, look rather crest-fallen. Ah, my good sir, you ' II have to try the race again and again,-the game isn't there." '' 0, don't speak a word!'' said Emmeline; ''what if they should bear you 1" " If they do hear anything, it will make them very particular to keep away," said Cassy. "No danger; we may make any noise we please, and it will only add to the effect." At length the stilhaess of midnight settled down over the bouse. Legree, cursing his ill luck, and vowing dire vengeance on the morrow, went to bed. I,IFE AMO~O '1'111-; LOWLY. CHAPTER XL. " Deem not the just by !Ieavcn forgot ! Though life its comroon gi fts deny,' fhough, with 1\ crushed and bleeding heart, And spurned of mnu, he goes to die ! For. God hath markLod euch sorrowing day, And numbered every bitter tear ; And hca.\'Cn's long years of bliss shall pay For all his children suffer here." Dnu.NT. 267 THE longest way must have its close,- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of momen!l! is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. We have walked with our humble friend thus far in the valley of slavery; first through flowery fields of ease and indulgence, then through heart-breaking separations from all that man holds dear. Again, we have waited with him in a. sunny island, where generous hands concealed his chains with flowers; and, lastly, we have followed him when the last ray of eartltly hope went out in night, and seen how, in the blackness of earthly darkness, the firmament of tho unseen has blazed with stars of new and significant lustre. The morning-star now stands over the tops of the mountains, and gales and breezes, not of earth, show that the gates of day are unclosing. The escape of Cassy and Emmeline irritated the before |
